My son’s a faster sprinter than me. That’s bloody depressing. He’s only a teenager for God’s sake. He’s only just clipped me after years of it being a non-contest. But now the little sods nudged ahead… only just, but what’s worse is that in a years time he’s going to be that much more ahead. [Read More]

Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter. That’s over 350,000 tweets a minute, and 500 million tweets each day, or around 200 billion tweets per year. It’s a lot. Turning to Facebook, we find the following: In Q2 2018, there were over 2.23 billion monthly active Facebook users worldwide (source: Facebook 07/25/18). 1.47 billion [Read More]

In the early 1930’s a group of somewhat crusty professors spent their Tuesday mornings mulling about at an unassuming pub on St. Giles Street in Oxford, England. In addition to the inevitable beer and breakfast, this weekly meetup was held with the intent of discussing literature. On its surface this was not unlike hundreds of [Read More]

…so that we can live happily. There’s a lot of retired people where I live. It’s just a function of what people choose to do when they’ve spent their life working, and then finally, once they have the means to, choosing a lifestyle they’d always dreamed of. Lots of sunshine, temperate climate, crashing waves, white [Read More]

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change…” Leo Buscaglia nailed it with the quote above. Ask any friends, colleagues or contacts you know who’ve enjoyed success about risk. If they’re anything like me [Read More]